IT organizations are constantly provisioning office workplaces to make services and applications available to users. Doing so requires state-of-the-art IT environments that are: adding and deleting users, changing configurations, providing new IT applications and services, and moving an office from one country to another must be possible in the age...

This white paper demonstrates the use of Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade, a powerful tool for managing change, risk, and system availability on Oracle Solaris systems. This white paper will cover: An overview of Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade for OS upgrades, patching, and as a mechanism for developers to install the...

Technology refresh cycles are a necessity, and can help companies take advantage of new innovations and operate at peak performance. While most companies associate such efforts with upgrading servers and systems, the operating system also plays a key role and can help organizations create more efficient deployments if kept up...

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to deploy an Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure with speed, simplicity, and savings. Enterprise collaboration initiatives such as blogs, wikis, and content management applications can be powerful ways to enhance productivity, increase innovation, and improve efficiency within the organization. But with budgets tight during...

The newest generation of Sun systems with Solid State Drives (SSDs) will help improve the economics of the data center by offering lower data center power usage, improving performance, lowering operating costs, and providing higher reliability. Sun and Intel have combined to improve SSD products, making them an essential tool...

The attendee of this webcast will explore how Sun Microsystems' Intel and AMD based servers, coupled with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V can enhance the data center virtualization effort, as well as the various capabilities this new approach enables, including run more virtual machines in the same footprint...

Current economic conditions might suggest that companies hold on to their installed servers longer. But doing so could actually drain the already limited IT budget, because operational costs and other soft-dollar expenses to support the many installed servers will be high relative to the costs of consolidating servers. With pressures...

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to consolidate the storage environment to reduce costs, power, and floor space and grow automated tape environments without disruption. The attendee will also learn how to simplify management of enterprise mainframe, open systems or mixed operating environments.

How to deliver the solutions the users are clamoring for while reducing the costs and footprint of the ever-expanding Oracle Siebel CRM 8 requirements? The presenters of this webcast will demonstrate how no-cost virtualization solutions from Sun can maximize CRM system utilization while minimizing power consumption and data center floor...

Hadoop is typically scaled on a large pool of commodity system nodes. However, by using multicore, multithreaded processors, one can achieve the same scale with fewer machines. The presenter of this webcast will discuss how Sun's chip multithreading (CMT) technology-based UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor can process up to 256 tasks...

The attendee of this webcast will learn how identity and access management solutions form one of the most important building blocks in establishing the necessary safeguards against malicious access to sensitive information. The presenter will look at how identity management can help address some of the key requirements of PCI...

The presenter gives overview of what's new in JSF 2.0. It covers all of the many new features in JSF 2.0, from big ticket items such as Ajax and bookmarkability, to small features like new methods on ExternalContext, and everything in between.

The attendee of this webcast will learn about the latest industry trends and receive an introduction to Sun's virtualization approaches for deploying IBM Websphere applications on the Sun Solaris platform.

By right-sizing the infrastructure to the business performance needs, one can achieve a data warehouse environment that is cost-effective, fast, reliable, and scalable. Sun can help to develop a plan for a balanced architecture just right for the needs, saving the money and deployment time, and maximizing the return on...

Sun and Intel, as part of a broad strategic alliance, have been working together - from design and architecture through implementation - to ensure the Solaris OS is optimized to maximize the power and capabilities of current and future Intel Xeon processors. Both Sun and Intel have made significant advances...

The attendee of this webcast will find out how GlassFish Mobility Platform and Web Space Server can jointly fit within the existing infrastructure to enable true business mobility through next-generation mobile IT infrastructure and applications. Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform offers a mixture of rich enterprise features. The attendee will learn...

IT consolidation through virtualization has emerged as an effective strategy for addressing the very real need for computing scalability while increasing the work that can be done in a given power, thermal, and physical footprint. Consolidation can improve resource utilization, reduce administrative complexity, and drive down IT costs. The attendee...

Saving data center budget dollars is not a "Nice to have" in today's turbulent economy, it's a critical demand. The challenge for an IT manager is to figure out ways in which he/she can do this quickly and achieve the greatest returns. One of the best ways to do so...

Every enterprise must consolidate directories, provide employee access through mergers and acquisitions, and store identity data for partners. How to do all of these things while still keeping costs low? The attendee of this webcast will learn how Sun offers the only high-performance directory server with essential data services including...

Providing a complete LAMP/SAMP cross-platform portfolio of Web-tier technologies, GlassFish Web Stack enables businesses to get production support for all the components of the LAMP/SAMP stack from a single vendor. A component of the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, GlassFish Web Stack provides optimized performance out of the box. The attendee will...

Sun's CoolThreads technology provides a native multi-threaded open environment that substantially improves the performance and the server efficiency of many segmented applications, especially web-facing applications. This means a reduction in data center "Sprawl" and lower day to day operating costs. In challenging times, these technologies can help reduce costs and...

As a business, the competition for the short attention span of customers is intense. Business services should be available to customers even though parts of the system have failed. This availability is provided through multiple mechanisms - clustering for service availability, session state persistence for availability of business sessions, fault...

The new economic reality of IT in the mid-market is that customers need systems that can scale easily, are simpler to manage and can lower their total cost of computing. Sun & Intel Solutions for small & medium sized businesses will help to do more, reduce costs, and drive new...

Interest in dynamic languages like Ruby, Groovy, Python has sky-rocketed. Developers find that their productivity increases many-fold with dynamic languages. GlassFish provides developers a platform to use dynamic languages as well as leverage Java EE features. Developers using dynamic languages like Ruby on Rails, Grails, Jython, Django can now leverage...

The presenter of this webcast talk about several underutilized security capabilities of the Solaris 10 OS. The presenter focuses on 5 key security features, provides examples of each, and touches on how they build on and benefit each other.

Looking for a way to cost-effectively acquire, manage, and maintain critical aspects of the Web platform? The Sun GlassFish Portfolio provides a foundation to develop and deploy Web and enterprise applications complete with centralized management and monitoring - and offers the best price/performance available. The attendee will find out more...

During challenging economic times, maintaining customer loyalty and reducing IT costs can yield the fastest ROI and make the biggest impact to the bottom line. Sun and Oracle deliver a CRM solution designed to do that and more. Showcasing the capabilities of Siebel CRM 8 running on Solaris 10, Sun...

The attendee of this webcast will learn how Sun GlassFish ESB, a Sun-supported platform based on Project OpenESB, lowers costs by enabling to start all new projects with a transparent, open-source, lightweight platform.

Database scalability and performance are essential to the success of many enterprise environments. While many companies prefer to scale solutions vertically, scaling within the system is difficult - if not impossible - on processors that are not optimized for throughput applications. As work continues on in-processor vertical scalability, the MySQL...

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to create a state of the art enterprise data center by combining best of breed modules to yield performance and efficiency across the board. This in-depth technical webcast is created for architects in the IT industry by Sun's engineering community and offers...

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to create a state of the art enterprise datacenter by combining best of breed modules to yield performance and efficiency across the board. This webcast offers best practices that are widely in use today. The attendee will learn how to architect the...

Interested in learning strategies for implementing open source in the enterprise and how to increase profitability with a high performance open web application platform? The Sun GlassFish is the most dynamic open web platform available today.

ETSA Utilities is South Australia's primary electricity distributor, delivering power to more than 800,000 homes and businesses. The company's challenge was to replace aging computers that host the company's ERP system and improve processing time of ERP system jobs. ETSA Utilities engaged Sun Microsystems to deploy two Sun SPARC Enterprise...

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Z?rich (ETH Z?rich) is a science and technology university in Z?rich, Switzerland with 370 professorships and 15,000 students from 80 nations. The challenge was to scale to handle many TB of new data on a few days' notice and find an additional alternative to...

Based in Paris, France and founded in 2003, Deveryware has deployed a range of technologies that support geolocation services. The challenge was to reduce energy consumption of database hardware and avoid cost incurred by acquiring additional rack. Deveryware has replaced its existing HP hardware with a combination of Sun Fire...

Based in Danville, Pennsylvania, Geisinger is one of the largest rural healthcare providers in the United States. The company's challenge was to meet regulatory requirements for controlling electronic data and implement solution under tight deadline. Geisinger Health Systems' upgraded its IT environment with a Sun StorageTek tape solution that strengthened...

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System supports NFS v3, NFS v4, iSCSI, and CIFS protocols and comes with a comprehensive set of data service features that can provide unlimited snapshots, clones, and remote replication. This quick start guide shows how to deploy Oracle Database using the NFS protocol with...

Sun Storage 7000 Series Unified Storage System has comprehensive data protection features that provide instant snapshots, cloning, rollback, and remote replication. These features can make database protection and maintenance tasks easier for systems and database administrators. This paper shows the methodologies to be followed for performing backup and recovery operation...

This paper describes a sizing study of Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence (OSBI) Suite on a Sun platform, including tests conducted with application tools from Pentaho. The purpose is to provide this guide as a reference point when users are choosing a suitable Sun platform for their Business Intelligence (BI)...

This paper discusses how to quickly configure and deploy Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL databases with the Sun Storage J4400 array. MySQL software has become the world's most popular open source database because of its ease of use, high performance, and high reliability. Regardless of how one uses MySQL software,...

This paper describes how to quickly configure and deploy the Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System (also referred to as "Appliance") for Symantec Enterprise Vault and how to set up a File System Archive (FSA). A quick introduction is provided on how to configure the Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage...

The Internet SCSI (iSCSI) protocol allows a client system (initiator) to send SCSI commands to targets on a remote server over an existing IP network infrastructure, thus providing a low cost alternative to a Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System supports the iSCSI, NFS,...

The objective of this paper is to show how to deploy Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 for MySQL on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS and how ZRM performs on a Sun Fire X4500 system using the ZFS file system. In particular this paper demonstrates how ZRM takes advantage of ZFS snapshot technology...

This paper describes the installation of the Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite (IWSS) software on Microsoft Windows and on the Solaris Operating System. The IWSS software is used as a virus scan engine for a Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System, in conjunction with the VSCAN service. Content on...

The proliferation of billions of devices - ranging from 3G cell phones to netbook computers - means consumers increasingly demand instantaneous access to information, whether the latest news story or a sports video clip. To meet this burgeoning demand, the processors that power modern networks must deliver huge improvements in...

As the global financial markets continue to shift towards electronic trading, the speed at which trading is able to take place establishes the winners and the losers among participants in the trading chain. Latency, wherever and however it is introduced, is the enemy of speed. Market participants are continuously driving...

Advanced advertising features in the trade press, articles, marketing papers, and conferences with increasing regularity. The phrase often is used so casually, and put forth with the underlying assumption that the audience has a thorough understanding of what is meant by the term. However, different media organizations, vendors, and media...

An accurate short-term forecast of product sales is vital for the smooth operation of modern supply chains, especially where the manufacture of complex products is outsourced internationally. As a vendor of enterprise computing products whose business model has long emphasized extensive outsourcing, Sun Microsystems Inc. has a keen interest in...

Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System has comprehensive data services that provide instant snapshots, cloning, rollback, and remote replication. These features can simplify database protection and maintenance tasks for system and database administrators. This paper shows how to use Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System remote replication with Oracle databases...

Organizations strive to deliver large amounts of data quickly and reliably and in an economical manner. However, existing storage solutions are expensive and hard to administer. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is an easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solution with the OpenSolaris Operating System. This paper demonstrates how...

The Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) provides developers with numerous interfaces, frameworks, and tools to take advantage of Solaris technologies. This manual provides a roadmap for developers to learn about the Solaris OS and provides links to sources of further information. The following topics are covered: Which Solaris Distribution is...

Complying with the requirements of PCI DSS is a top IT priority for many companies today. But focusing strictly on compliance isn't enough for companies that are charged with protecting sensitive data, as suggested by recent well-publicized security breaches. When companies shift the focus instead to building a secure infrastructure,...

The paper describes a simple protocol for RESTful authentication, using widely deployed technologies such as HTTP, SSL/TLS and Semantic Web vocabularies. This protocol can be used for one-click sign-on to web sites using existing browsers | requiring the user to enter neither an identifier nor a password. Upon this, distributed,...

Designing a Windows server consolidation initiative creates a new set of challenges for the storage infrastructure - storage solutions must offer simplicity, performance, availability, and ease of management. To this end, Sun offers a range of simple, high-performance, easy-to-deploy, low-cost, and innovative storage solutions for Windows consolidation efforts. When combined...

Cloud computing promises to increase the velocity with which applications are deployed, increase innovation, and lower costs, all while increasing business agility. Sun takes an inclusive view of cloud computing that allows it to support every facet, including the server, storage, network, and virtualization technology that drives cloud computing environments...

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to deploy an Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure with speed, simplicity, and savings. Enterprise collaboration initiatives such as blogs, wikis, and content management applications can be powerful ways to enhance productivity, increase innovation, and improve efficiency within the organization. But with budgets tight during...

The newest generation of Sun systems with Solid State Drives (SSDs) will help improve the economics of the data center by offering lower data center power usage, improving performance, lowering operating costs, and providing higher reliability. Sun and Intel have combined to improve SSD products, making them an essential tool...

The attendee of this webcast will explore how Sun Microsystems' Intel and AMD based servers, coupled with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V can enhance the data center virtualization effort, as well as the various capabilities this new approach enables, including run more virtual machines in the same footprint...

Current economic conditions might suggest that companies hold on to their installed servers longer. But doing so could actually drain the already limited IT budget, because operational costs and other soft-dollar expenses to support the many installed servers will be high relative to the costs of consolidating servers. With pressures...

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to consolidate the storage environment to reduce costs, power, and floor space and grow automated tape environments without disruption. The attendee will also learn how to simplify management of enterprise mainframe, open systems or mixed operating environments.

How to deliver the solutions the users are clamoring for while reducing the costs and footprint of the ever-expanding Oracle Siebel CRM 8 requirements? The presenters of this webcast will demonstrate how no-cost virtualization solutions from Sun can maximize CRM system utilization while minimizing power consumption and data center floor...

Hadoop is typically scaled on a large pool of commodity system nodes. However, by using multicore, multithreaded processors, one can achieve the same scale with fewer machines. The presenter of this webcast will discuss how Sun's chip multithreading (CMT) technology-based UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor can process up to 256 tasks...

The attendee of this webcast will learn how identity and access management solutions form one of the most important building blocks in establishing the necessary safeguards against malicious access to sensitive information. The presenter will look at how identity management can help address some of the key requirements of PCI...

The presenter gives overview of what's new in JSF 2.0. It covers all of the many new features in JSF 2.0, from big ticket items such as Ajax and bookmarkability, to small features like new methods on ExternalContext, and everything in between.

The attendee of this webcast will learn about the latest industry trends and receive an introduction to Sun's virtualization approaches for deploying IBM Websphere applications on the Sun Solaris platform.

By right-sizing the infrastructure to the business performance needs, one can achieve a data warehouse environment that is cost-effective, fast, reliable, and scalable. Sun can help to develop a plan for a balanced architecture just right for the needs, saving the money and deployment time, and maximizing the return on...

Sun and Intel, as part of a broad strategic alliance, have been working together - from design and architecture through implementation - to ensure the Solaris OS is optimized to maximize the power and capabilities of current and future Intel Xeon processors. Both Sun and Intel have made significant advances...

The attendee of this webcast will find out how GlassFish Mobility Platform and Web Space Server can jointly fit within the existing infrastructure to enable true business mobility through next-generation mobile IT infrastructure and applications. Sun GlassFish Mobility Platform offers a mixture of rich enterprise features. The attendee will learn...

IT consolidation through virtualization has emerged as an effective strategy for addressing the very real need for computing scalability while increasing the work that can be done in a given power, thermal, and physical footprint. Consolidation can improve resource utilization, reduce administrative complexity, and drive down IT costs. The attendee...

Saving data center budget dollars is not a "Nice to have" in today's turbulent economy, it's a critical demand. The challenge for an IT manager is to figure out ways in which he/she can do this quickly and achieve the greatest returns. One of the best ways to do so...

Every enterprise must consolidate directories, provide employee access through mergers and acquisitions, and store identity data for partners. How to do all of these things while still keeping costs low? The attendee of this webcast will learn how Sun offers the only high-performance directory server with essential data services including...

Providing a complete LAMP/SAMP cross-platform portfolio of Web-tier technologies, GlassFish Web Stack enables businesses to get production support for all the components of the LAMP/SAMP stack from a single vendor. A component of the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, GlassFish Web Stack provides optimized performance out of the box. The attendee will...

Sun's CoolThreads technology provides a native multi-threaded open environment that substantially improves the performance and the server efficiency of many segmented applications, especially web-facing applications. This means a reduction in data center "Sprawl" and lower day to day operating costs. In challenging times, these technologies can help reduce costs and...

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